Blind Willie McTell

Blind Willie McTell (born William Samuel McTier, May 5, 1898 – August 19, 1959),
was an influential Piedmont and ragtime blues
singer and guitarist. He played with a fluid, syncopated fingerstyle guitar technique, common among many exponents of Piedmont blues,
although, unlike his contemporaries, he used exclusively a twelve-string guitar. As well as this, McTell was an adept slide guitarist, unusual among many ragtime bluesmen.
His vocal style, a smooth and often laid-back tenor,
differed greatly from many of the harsher and more expressive voice types employed by Delta bluesmen such as Charlie Patton. McTell embodied a variety of musical styles, including
blues, ragtime,
religious music, and hokum.